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Nearest Communities to Prairie Elk,
Listed County-By-County

The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Prairie Elk, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Prairie Elk:

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors were in the next county to the east. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the south.

When doing our research, we make it a practice to expand our search by looking in neighboring counties in addition to the county in which they lived:  their home county contained property and probate records; the county to the east contained birth and death records; the county to the south contained their burial records. If we hadn't checked the neighboring counties, we would have missed many valuable sources of information.

Please note that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance.<1>

If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.

Although our information shows that the community of Prairie Elk is historic,<2> it would have been located within present day McCone County.

The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of McCone County: Dawson, Garfield, Prairie, Richland, Roosevelt & Valley.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 22 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Prairie Elk. Of these communities, 8 are located in counties other than McCone County.

We usually exclude communities where we still need to verify their location,<3> but for the purpose of this page, we have included the unverified ('unver') and historic ('hist') communities.

After starting with the home county for Prairie Elk (which is McCone County), we list the counties in alphabetical order and for each of those counties, the closest communities are listed in order of their distance from Prairie Elk

For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.

  • McCone County   (where Prairie Elk resides)
    • County Seat for McCone:   Circle
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Prairie Elk   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Prairie Elk.
      • Sand Creek ‑ Historic
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sand Creek have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sand Creek
        • Sand Creek is located in McCone County
      • Weldon
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Weldon have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Weldon
        • Weldon is located in McCone County
      • Hamblin ‑ Historic
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hamblin have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hamblin
        • Hamblin is located in McCone County
      • Pearmond ‑ Historic
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Pearmond have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pearmond
        • Pearmond is located in McCone County
      • Rodgers Hill
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Rodgers Hill have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rodgers Hill
        • Rodgers Hill is located in McCone County
      • Presserville ‑ Historic
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Presserville have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Presserville
        • Presserville is located in McCone County
      • Vida
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
      • Coal Creek ‑ Historic
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Coal Creek have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coal Creek
        • Coal Creek is located in McCone County
      • Pleasant Valley ‑ Historic
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Pleasant Valley have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleasant Valley
        • Pleasant Valley is located in McCone County
      • Lost Creek ‑ Historic
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lost Creek have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lost Creek
        • Lost Creek is located in McCone County
      • Redwater ‑ Historic
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Redwater
        • Redwater is located in McCone County
      • Circle
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Circle have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Circle
        • Circle is located in McCone County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 598 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Circle <5>
      • Cactus Flat ‑ Historic
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cactus Flat have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cactus Flat
        • Cactus Flat is located in McCone County
      • McCone City ‑ Historic
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for McCone City have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McCone City
        • McCone City is located in McCone County
  • Dawson County
    • County Seat for Dawson:   Glendive
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Prairie Elk   ...
      • Paxton ‑ Historic
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Paxton have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Paxton
        • Paxton is located in Dawson County
  • Garfield County
  • Roosevelt County
    • County Seat for Roosevelt:   Wolf Point
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Prairie Elk   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Prairie Elk.
      • Wolf Point
        (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
      • Macon
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Macon have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Macon
        • Macon is located in Roosevelt County
  • Valley County
    • County Seat for Valley:   Glasgow
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Prairie Elk   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Prairie Elk.
      • Oswego
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Oswego have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oswego
        • Oswego is located in Valley County
      • Frazer
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Frazer have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Frazer
        • Frazer is located in Valley County
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Frazer <5>
      • Kintyre
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Kintyre have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kintyre
        • Kintyre is located in Valley County
      • Wiota ‑ Historic
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Wiota have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wiota
        • Wiota is located in Valley County

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Prairie Elk) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Prairie Elk. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 47.7833, Longitude: -105.8631       In this case, the coordinates for Prairie Elk have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<2>We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Prairie Elk, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>Our data comes from many sources and some sources are more dependable than others. When we add communities to our Gazetteer, we try to verify that we have the correct location for the community. We mark a community as 'Unverified' when we aren't confident about our data and want to do further checking.

We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now.

Since our Gazetteer contains over 100,000 communities, verifying everything is going to take time. If you find an error or can help us to improve our accuracy, please let us know.
<4>The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<5>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.




 

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